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| India Intends To Increase Facilities For Production Of Manganese Ferro-Alloys |
| = Five New Electric Furnaces Are Planned To Construct, Many New Electric Furnaces Await To Be Approved |
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In order to cope with an expansion of steel production in India, the cases to increase the facilities for production of manganese ferro-alloys are becoming active. The Government of India already announced the projects to invest in facilities, which are able to produce crude steel on a scale of 110 million tons per annum from 2011, and, accordingly, the demand for manganese ferro-alloys in India is estimated to be 1,640,000 tons per annum. Also, 4.10 million tons per annum of manganese ore are thought to be required as raw material for this production of manganese ferro-alloys. The plans to increaseq a facilities for production of manganese ferro-alloys in India as so far known are as per the tables (1) and (2) attached hereto. Namely, a number of new electric furnaces, which the Government of India has already approved and are currently proceeding, comes to five electric furnaces in total, including two large electric furnaces, and the total volume of transformer capacities for these five new electric furnaces is calculated to be 102 MVA. At present, major producers of ferro-alloys in India are counted to be nine companies and most of electric furnaces installed at these producers are small electric furnaces with transformer capacity of 5 - 9 MVA per furnace, because these small electric furnaces are able to accord with the supply situation of electric power in India at present. However, new facilities to construct in India are one large electric furnace with transformer capacity of 33 MVA as planned by SEML and also one large electric furnace with transformer capacity of 24 MVA scheduled to be introduced by Jindal. A key point to materialize these plans to produce more manganese ferro-alloys in India is how to secure stably manganese ore as raw material. The cases, having possessed manganese mines in India, have been limited and these Indian producers supposedly have to import manganese ore from stable sources in overseas countries. From this point of view, manganese ore produced in South Africa, Australia and Gabon are promising for an advantage of their location. India already imported 675,000 tons of manganese ore in 2007 and is anticipated to expand further a scale of manganese ore to be imported into India. |
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